Gastro Health is seeking a Full-Time Insurance Collections Specialist to join our team!
Gastro Health is a great place to work and advance in your career. You’ll find a collaborative team of coworkers and providers, as well as consistent hours.
This role offers:
- A great work/life balance
- No weekends or evenings – Monday thru Friday
- Paid holidays and paid time off
- Rapidily growing team with opportunities for advancement
- Competitive compensation
- Benefits package
Duties you will be responsible for:
- Provides Liaison between the providers of health care services, the patient, or other responsible persons, and revenue sources, to ensure the correctness of charges, a current record of all transactions, and account resolution
- Maintains active communications with insurance carriers and third-party carriers until account is paid.
- Negotiates payment of current and past due accounts by direct telephone and written correspondence.
- Updates patient account information
- Monitors and identifies payer denial trends and problem accounts; communicates patterns to supervisor.
- Runs a monthly aging report based on DOS and current A/R to identify accounts that require follow up.
- Manage all assigned worklist on a daily basis for assigned insurances.
- Utilize collection techniques to resolve accounts according to company’s policies and procedures.
- Report any coding related denial to the Coding Specialist.
- Performs other duties including but limited to faxing information as required, generating retroactive authorization requests, and verifying medical eligibility.
- Conducts necessary research to ensure proper reimbursement of claims.
- Assist with special projects assigned by Billing Manager or Supervisor
Minimum Requirements
- High school diploma or GED equivalent.
- At least 2 years’ experience in insurance collections.
- Knowledge of medical terminology utilized in medical collections and billing (CPT, ICD-10, HCPCS)
- Knowledge with letters of appeal.
- Intermediate experience with Microsoft Excel and Office products is required.
- Experience with HMO, PPO, and Medicare insurances.
- Must be able to read, interpret, and apply regulations, policies and procedures
We offer a comprehensive benefits package to our eligible employees:
- 401(k) retirement plans with employer Safe Harbor
- Harbor Non-Elective Contributions of 3%
- Discretionary profit-sharing contributions of up to 4%
- Health insurance
- Employer contributions to HSAs and HRAs
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Flexible spending accounts
- Voluntary life insurance
- Voluntary disability insurance
- Accident insurance
- Hospital indemnity insurance
- Critical illness insurance
- Identity theft insurance
- Legal insurance
- Pet insurance
- Paid time off
- Discounts at local fitness clubs
- Discounts at AT&T
Additionally, Gastro Health participates in a program called Tickets at Work that provides discounts on concerts, travel, movies, and more.